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THOMAS C. UPHAM, D.D., 

LATE PROFESSOR OF MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IIT BOWDOIN COLLEGT! 



DELmEHED AT THE INTEEMEISTT, BRUNSWICK, ME,, 

Apkil 4, 1872, 



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BEUNSWICK, JUNE 1, 1872. 
PEOFESSOK ALPHEUS S. PACELiED, D. D. 

My deab sm: 

In tendering my thanks for your Mnd consent to deliver, 
at scarcely more than a moment's notice, a public discourse upon the life 
and character of your late associate, Prof. TJpham, permit me to express 
my high appreciation of the appropriateness and excellence of that service 
of love. 

Believing that this would he prized by a wide circle of pupils and 
friends, I request in behalf of the association of the Alumni, a copy of 
your discourse for publication. 
, I am, mj^ dear sir. 

Your attached friend, 

JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN", 

President of the Association of the Alumni^ 
Bowdoin College. 



ADDRESS. 



Prof. Upham five years ago resigned the position in 
the College which he had held forty-three years, and, 
when he bid farewell to Brunswick, felt that lie was 
leaving home. He has now been brought back to this 
which we are wont to call his last home. But it is only 
the last home for a wearied, dismantled, perishing tene- 
ment — dust to dust, ashes to ashes. His everlasting 
home is with his God and Saviour above ; or, to use 
his own words, the first articulate speech he uttered 
after his fatal seizure, "his soul is with God." 

It seemed due to his memory and to ourselves, to 
us of the College and to us of this community, who, 
by the constant inquiry regarding his condition from 
all classes since the first tidings of his illness came to 
VL8, showed how deep and wide was the interest in 
him, — it seemed fitting that these funeral rites should 
not be suffered to pass without some more formal tes- 
timonial of our respect and regard for his memory, 
and an attempt to gather up our recollections of the 
remarkable life which has now come to the end of 
earth. 



6 

Prof. Upham was born in Deerfield, N. H., Jan. 
20, 1799, and had just completed his 73d year. The 
family removed to Rochester, N. H., in his childhood. 
His father was a representative in Congress, and a 
leading citizen in that part of New Hampshire. Of 
his youth I can give no details. He was a pupil in 
Latin, for a time, of the late ex-President Jared Sparks, 
who, while in his preparatory course at Exeter Acade- 
my, taught a school at Rochester. Young Upham 
entered Dartmouth University, and when the char- 
tered rights of Dartmouth College, invaded by the 
attempt to establish a university, were vindicated by 
the Supreme Judiciary of the U. S. in the famous 
Dartmouth College case and the university was dis- 
banded, he entered and graduated at the college in 
1818. He then went through three years of theologi- 
cal study at Andover, in which he gained such dis- 
tinction by his indefatigable study, his scholarship and 
attainments, that, after completing the course, he was 
selected by Prof Stuart to assist him in the Greek and 
Hebrew instruction of the seminary. While at the 
seminary, at the suggestion of Prof Stuart he trans- 
lated from the Latin Jahn's ArchaBology with additions 
and corrections, which was published in 1823, — was 
deemed a valuable accession to the apparatus then 
within reach of biblical students, and received high 
testimonials for the fidelity and excellence of the 
translation both at home and abroad. He subsequent- 
ly became pastor over the church of his Rochester 



home, where he labored a year with characteristic 
zeal and energy and to the great contentment of his 
people until 1824, when he was chosen to the Pro- 
fessorship of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics in 
this College. To this department was added after- 
wards instruction in Hebrew for such as contemplated 
a theological course after graduation — some requisi- 
tion in Hebrew having been made for admission to the/ 
Andover Seminary. In February, 1825, at the open- 
ing of our spring term, he and two others of his col- 
leagues, elected to office at the same time with him- 
self the preceding September, were formally and with 
public ceremonial, in accordance with academic usage, 
inducted into their professorships. It was deemed an 
occasion of much interest to the College, inasmuch as 
two new departments of instruction were established, 
and an important accession was made to the strength 
and reputation of the institution in the high reputa- 
tion which our young professor brought with him. 

He entered upon this his special field of labor at a 
period of new and absorbing interest in his particular 
department of instruction. Locke and Stewart had 
been the authorities of the lecture room ; but now the 
elegant and attractive philosophical works of the emi- 
nent Dr. Thomas Brown of Edinburgh had just been 
issued from the American press; the "Aids to Reflec- 
tion" and the philosophical discourses of Coleridge 
were beginning to be heard and read ; the specula- 
tions and doctrines of Degerando ^nd Cousin in 



France, and " The Critique of Pure Reason " of Kant^ 
the influence of which was beginning to be felt, were 
preparing the way for what might be deemed almost 
a new philosophy of the mind, certainly a new era in 
its study. The young professor brought to his chair 
the energy and indefatigable zeal for which he was al- 
ready highly reputed, and at once began to prepare a 
text-book which would form the basis of his class in- 
struction. As Prof Newman began his work of pre- 
paring a text-book in the department of Rhetoric, so 
Prof Upham at first gave lectures to his classes, the 
results of his studies, and in 1827 embodied them in a 
work, which he called a compilation on Mental Phi- 
losophy, which in 1831 he expanded into a more origi- 
nal and systematic work in two volumes. We may 
here say, that it was not until after he had terminated 
his course of more than forty years* instruction in the 
college, that we were made aware of the incessant la- 
bors and anxieties of these first years of his official 
career. When he was called to his Professorship he 
was encouraged by his master, Stuart of Andover, who 
looked to him with confidence to stem the flood of 
German metaphysics which in his^ apprehension tend- 
ed to unsettle and lead astray. With patient labor of 
those years, twelve to fourteen hours a day, his way 
yet involved in darkness, and his work, as he felt, as 
far from accomplishment as when he began, his cour- 
age began to fail, and, from a sense of honor, he was 
on the point of resigning his professorship, when what 



we may term a discovery in mental science flashed 
upon his mind, which gave place, order and proportion 
to all his facts ; the idea that there were in the unity 
of the soul three co-ordinate forms of activity, the in- 
tellect, the sensibilities and the will. With singular 
modesty he never vaunted this original conception of 
his mind, having, as one of his friends has well said 
with truth, been as careful to conceal originality as' 
some men have been to affect it. It has however 
been adopted in the science. With renewed heart and 
vigor he pursued his researches beyond others into 
the region of the sensibilities ; gave a philosophical ex- 
planation of the doctrine of the depravity of man- set 
forth the relations between the passions and the con- 
science, laying in the sensibilities the basis of a true 
philosophy of the will ; and then, entering the region 
of the will as co-ordinate with the heart or the intel- 
lect, showing its laws, — that law is compatible with 
freedom, and indicating the distinction between free- 
dom and power. The speaker doubts whether any of 
us ever before knew of some of the facts which have 
now been made, so reticent was he about himself even 
to his colleagues of forty years close companionship, 
and I am indebted to what I suppose to be the revela- 
tions of himself made to friends since he left us, and 
which were given in an address at the Commencement 
of Eutgers College, New York, in 1870, on conferring 
upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 

The work on Mental Philosophy was favorably 

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noticed in leading reviews of England and of our own 
country. In a German periodical it was commended 
as a good example of the treatment of the subject by 
a practical English mind. It has appeared in several 
editions, has been extensively us^d as a text-book in 
colleges and seminaries of learning in the land, and 
Dr. Hamlin of Constantinople translated it for his 
Mission School. In 1834 he gave to the public his 
Treatise on the Will^ which may be regarded perhaps as 
his ablest production, and in 1840 his Outlines of Im^- 
perfect and Disordered Mental Action. 

We may judge of the abundance and diversified 
character of his literary labars and of the fertility of 
his resources, if we merely refer to the works which^ 
aside from Kis special department, proceeded in quite 
rapid succession from his pen. His Eatio Disciplinse^ 
or the Constitution of the Congregational Churches as 
deduced from early authorities, a work of high au- 
thority, was published in 1829, and has passed through 
two editions at least. Having embraced at an early 
period the doctrines of Peace announced and advo- 
cated with great zeal and ability by Gapt. William 
Ladd of this vicinity, he wrote several articles for the 
public press under the signature of Perier, the name 
of the eminent French banker and statesman, Casimir 
Perier, th^ last appointed Cabinet Minister of Charles- 
X, and afterwards in the Cabinet of Louis Philippe. 
These essays were embodied in one of the four Prize 
Essays on. a Congress of Nations, in a volume under 



11 

that title in 1840, which reveals his extensive reading 
in European political history. Previously, in 1836, 
was published his Manual of Peace, which has been 
stereotyped, and both these works are among the ad- 
vertised volumes of the Peace Society. Several works 
from his ready pen appeared in rapid succession, 
which have passed through successive editions, indi-- 
eating the direction of his mind on topics connected 
with the higher christian life ; as Principles of the 
Interior or Hidden Life, 1844 ; Eeligious Maxims, 1846 ; 
The Life of Faith, 1857 ; Treatise on Divine Union, 

1857 ; Life and Eeligious Opinions and Religious Expe- 
rience of Madame Guyon and of Fenelon, two volumes, 

1858 and 1862, noticed with high approval in the Brit- 
ish Quarterly and London Athengeum; and also Life of 
Madame Adorna. A graduate of this college, then 
a student at Gottingen, was gratified by seeing a copy 
of one of these works on the table of Prof Dorner, 
now of Berlin, and by the interest that eminent Ger- 
man expressed in reading it. One of our missionaries 
wrote from India, that he found a learned Brahmin 
^studying these works. 

In 1852 Prof Upham spent -a y^ar in European 
.and Eastern travel, visiting England and Scotland, 
France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, Egypt and 
the Holy Land, his companion of travel being Rev, 
.Mr. Thompson, then of the Broadway Tabernacle, ]^. 
Y. One result of his tour was a volume, in which we 
have the impressions made on an observing, contem- 



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plative, highly cultured and poetic mind, of the people 
and scenes he visited. This volume, of which a third 
edition has been printed, ranks high among the most 
thoughtful and instructive works of that class. He 
has moreover communicated, from first to last, 
articles for magazines and the public newspaper press, 
which have always commanded attention. Dr. Up- 
ham had a highly poetic temperament, and not un- 
frequently gave proof of it by poetic contributions 
to the press. The second year of his residence with 
us he pronounced the poem at the public exercises of 
the P. B. K. Fraternity. He published a volume of 
minor poems, under the title, American Cottage Life, 
which went through six editions. Indeed, in all his 
writings, even in those on metaphysical subjects, turns 
of thought and expression with great felicity of lan- 
guage constantly reveal the imaginative element in 
his mental constitution. I should add that the papers 
of this week announce his last work from the press, 
Christ in the Soul. The labor of preparing it may 
have caused his fatal seizure. A collection of his 
works would make at least twenty volumes. 

The variety and extent of the literary labors of Dr. 
Upham afford proof of the varied character of his 
erudition. He was indeed a devourer of books. He 
explored all the libraries of the college and visited 
those of other institutions. I know of his visiting 
Baltimore in search of a volume that he could find 
there, and knew not where else to find it. He read 



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all works in his own department ^nd biographies and 
books of travel, from which to draw manifold illustra- 
tions. None among us were so deeply read in Euro- 
pean history. I doubt if the State could produce a 
man more conversant with the politics of Europe. He 
always seemed to have some important topic in hand, 
though it was incidentally and accidentally that we 
detected the direction and reach of his explorations. ' 
I rather think, if the college librarian found it diffi- 
cult to account for missing books, his first thought was 
to make examination of the Professor's long account, 
and then of his study. 

Prof Upham came, as we have seen, from a pas- 
torate to his professorship. But although he had 
exercised the public ministry of the Word, his nervous 
temperament, as he alleged, did not allow frequent 
preaching. Occasionally, during the first two or three 
years of his professorship, he occupied the pulpit of 
this church to the great gratification of his hearers, 
but soon felt constrained to avoid public speaking. 
He supplied the pulpit in Harpswell for a season or 
two, and his active interest and personal effort in en- 
couraging that people and the people of Topsham, in 
maintaining the ordinances of God's house, are held 
in grateful remembrance. In person he solicited con- 
tributions among the people of Harpswell towards 
their new church, and with success surprising to 
themselves. 

Though at an early period of his life among us his 



14 

voice ceased to be heard even in the social meetings 
of the church, he for the most part conducted for some 
years the Saturday evening religious meeting in the 
college, sitting in his chair while he read his interest- 
ing and charming discourses, always listened to with 
close attention. It was a source of regret, not always 
patient and submissive, that one who was so abundant- 
ly provided in his own mind and experience for the 
instruction and edification of us all, and was so inde- 
fatigable and unsparing in what may be termed the 
the external labors of the church and society, could 
not be moved from his impenetrable reticence in the 
more private, no less than in the public offices of the 
minister and lay brethren. With great skill and per- 
sistence in inciting and encouraging those less qualified 
for such service, he was singularly silent himself He 
rarely spoke, but when he did speak, all wished he would 
be more free and liberal with his gifts. "No," he would 
say, " that is not work for me. You who are more 
able must do that. My work is in a humbler sphere- 
In other ways I try to do something for the cause." 

Yes, if he did not preach or exhort in the assembly 
of God's people, he sometimes did more in his way 
than perhaps most of us united did in ours, which leads 
me to refer to his power of influence — his power with 
men, not in masses, for I do not think he ever addressed 
.a public assembly after he ceased to preach, scarcely 
ever, as I have already mentioned, a private gathering 
£)f Christian people ; but his power was great with in- 



15 

dividual men. Of great sagacity and forethought and 
foresight; of sleepless vigilance in critical emergencieSj 
he was quick to detect motives and movements. Be- 
neath that humble, quiet, unobtrusive bearing, there 
was a persistent energy combined with skill in enlist- 
ing agencies, which would not yield until threatened 
evil was thwarted, or the proposed good attained. 
Once certainly, if not more than once, in a crisis of' 
affairs, the chartered rights of the college were secured 
by his sole intervention. 

Prof Upham has been identified with a transaction 
or series of transactions, the issue of which is known 
in the history of the college as the " Declaration ;" 
an arrangement, the object of which was to assure the 
friends of the institution that the religious bearing 
and denominational character of the college should 
continue to be as it had been. Nothing more was 
contemplated by the movement, which by mismanage- 
ment and misapprehension became a source of great 
solicitude to him, and of embarrassment and unfriend- 
liness to the college. In justice to his memory I may 
state very briefly what at the outset he told me con- 
cerning his inception of the undertaking. Fruitless 
efforts having been made in three different directions 
to raise funds for the college, at a period of its greatest 
depression, the idea was suggested by an eminent 
Boston merchant, a member of the Brattle-street 
Church, that the only way to secure that object was to 
assure to the college, as he expressed it, a certain 



16 

character ; and, in accordance with that suggestion, 
frof. Upham sought to effect just that object; and 
at great personal effort, by journeyings often and in- 
terviews and discussions with the several Trustees and 
Overseers of the college far and near, by persistent 
and personal influence, he accomplished the purpose. 
All that was attempted, and all that was done, was to 
make sure to the college the position in the respects 
just indicated which it had always actually held; and 
on the strength of that " Declaration," by personal solici- 
tation he secured to the funds of the college more than 
seventy thousand dollars, subscribing to the object the 
larger part of his own property. The founding of 
the Collins Professorship was one result of this move- 
ment, and largely his work. 

I apprehend that what occurs to the thoughts of 
all who have been conversant with our departed friend 
and his manner of life among us, as prominent in 
their recollections of him, is the unaffected, deep and 
earnest interest he always manifested in the moral 
and religious well-being of his fellow-men. His first 
thought, as was fitting, was for the college. As has 
been stated, he sustained the Saturday evening re- 
ligious meeting for the most part for several years. 
He was instant in season and out of season, in visiting 
the students at their rooms, was the first to discern 
indications of awakening interest in religious con- 
cerns; was abundant in personal efforts in such seasons; 
was sagacious in detecting the inworking of the Divine 



17 

Spirit, or the presence of the spirit of evil ; in one 
instance, as I remember, rescuing from imminent 
mental wreck a young man of promise, bj cautiously 
and most skillfully alluring him away from speculations 
which were unduly exciting his mind and threatened 
disordered mental action.* 

We cannot forget the interest he manifested in be- 
half of this church aiid society. His watch and care ' 
and abounding efforts in its temporal, no less than in 

*As illustrating in some measure his faculty of approaching 
tend influencing young men, I quote from a letter which I re- 
ceived from a gi*aduate soon after his burial : 

•" His first call upon m=e when a Freshman at the age of fif- 
teen, fresli from the country, the embodiment of immaturity, 
with no religious character, deeply impressed me. He was so 
gentle, seemed so far to have reversed our relations to each 
other, treating me with such respect and manifesting so much 
diffidence, and yet leading the conversation by persistent though 
imperceptible steps to character and to Christ; oiDcning the 
Bible so reverently and reading with such docility of spirit and 
with rich practical suggestions the conversation with Nicodemufi, 
The interview may have been lightly spoken of at the time, but 
it left me hushed, awed and benefitted. Then in the early part 
of the Senior year he urged me to public and social efibrt as a 
•christian ; encouraging me to do things from which, as you say, 
he always shrunk. " The service of God first ; " this was the 
lesson he taught me. His excessive nervous timidity to my 
mind accounted for traits of character that awakened unfavorable 
comment. He trembled at, and shrank from, public speech. He 
hesitated at a bold assertion, however true. He loved the most 
retired, not to say secret, ways of investigation for either practi- 
cal or philosophical purposes, more because his nerves were 
weak, than because his convictions w.ere feeble or his moral 
eourage faint." 
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its spiritual prosperity, deserve grateful remembrance. 
In seasons of financial embarrassment he made suc- 
cessful efforts for its relief; and especially wben there 
was a revival of religious interest, many that now 
s^leep in death, could they testify, and many now 
living, would bear witness to his unceasing devotion 
to. what he was wont to call the great cause of his 
Master. 

All questions of public moment, whether regard- 
ing religion or morals and manners^ found him a vigi- 
lant observer and active participant in all good 
measures. Some may recall an earnest conflict in the 
earlier history of what is termed the Temperance 
Cause, when the question of licenses agitated the 
community and a decisive vote was taken by arraying 
the opposing parties in the public street, the building 
in which the meetings was held, (the red school-house 
in School street,^) being too small for polling the house. 
The question was decided adversely to licenses. It 
was called " Upham's victory." His voice had not 
been raised in a public meeting, but he had traversed 
the town, it was said at the time, and exerted his un- 
aommon power of argument and persuasion in private 
personal converse to array the public sentiment on the 
side of good morals and public order. 

Prof Upham's whole life was that of a true phi- 
lanthropist. The famous line of Terence, homo sum^ 
humani nihil a me alienum piito^ was illustrated in him as 
fully as in any human being. There was a fountain 
of kindness and good-will within him, ever full and 



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overflowing. His domestic affections were deep and 
abiding. Nothing could show more strikingly the 
iove that was in him, seeking for objects on which to 
fasten, than the fact that, not blessed with children of 
his own, he adopted children and loved and did for 
them as if they were his own. Some of them are 
able to participate in the solemn rites of to-day. 

The oppressed and down-trodden found in him a 
sympathizing, active friend. He was an earlj^ and lib- 
eral patron of colonization, constituting himself a life 
member of the society by a contribution of one 
thousand dollars. His name stands on the first roll of 
signers to the temperance pledge in Brunswick, drawn 
up immediately after the visit of the eminent Dr. 
Edwards. He watched with eager eye every move- 
ment for the ends of civil and religious . liberty in 
Europe or on this continent. He labored earnestly, as 
we have noticed, in the cause of peace, and yet when 
the cloud of civil war hung over our land, his heart was 
stirred within him for the salvation and integrity of 
his bleeding country. To crown all, he was instant in 
season and out of season, in college, in the street, and 
from house to house in the cause of his Master. Not 
a man among us was more sensitive to anything 
which promised good or threatened evil to the inter- 
ests of morals or of vital godliness. 

I think no one was conversant with Prof Upham 
without being struck with one trait already alluded 
to, the remarkable absence of self-assertion ; by which 
J mean, that he was singularly free not merely from 



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everything like vain-glory^ but from all appearance of 
self-consciousness of the reputation he had gained by 
his works or his deeds. There was not the shade of 
self-exaltation in anything he said or did. He was 
far as one could be from the appearance of being 
puffed up by his attainments or his wide reputation. 
His manner and bearing were not even what might 
be readily excused in one who could not but be aware, 
that he could sustain elegant and learned discourse 
with any of the philosophers or statesmen or men of 
letters of the world. On the contrary he could take 
the level of the most humble and illiterate with no 
appearance of condescension^ readily adapting himself 
to their apprehension, their prejudices, or their hu- 
mors — thus in the best sense becoming all things 
to all men if he might thereby win them to the 
right and the true. The most lowly found one more 
lowly themselves. However much he had accom- 
plished by personal effort he did not claim credit for 
what he had done. In a public meeting, even in a 
church meeting, his chosen seat was in ^ retired ' 
corner. He seldom spoke of his own agency in affairs 
of moment ; never appeared as a leader, even where 
in truth he was the heart and soul of the movement. 
All knew his characteristic persistency, but did not 
charge him with being obtrusive. Notwithstanding 
his unassuming, quiet and meek ways, he had a sin- 
gular faculty, however, of so presenting a subject as 
to commend it to the judgment and best feelings of 
him whom he addressed. A gentleman of large re- 



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sources and of course subject to frequent calls of 
benevolence, once declared that it was a pleasure|to 
receive an application from Prof Upham, because he 
felt that he had gained by the christian discourse of 
the applicant. 

No one, I think, ever saw our friend under the ex- 
citement of passion. In circumstances which must 
have severely tried his patience, he preserved the^t 
calm unperturbed bearing so characteristic of him. 
He had subjected his spirit apparently to the precepts 
found in his work entitled Eeligious Maxims, which 
contains sentences from writings of the mystics, as 
Fenelon, Madame Guyon and others eminent for their 
christian graces — writings in which few of our day 
were so deeply read. 

He was in the best sense a quietest, and seemed to 
have acquired a remarkable self-control, and to have 
attained to a high state of repose in God, his provi- 
dence and grace as revealed in his holy word. I was 
much struck, at the darkest period of the late war, in 
an interview with our friend, when the foundations 
seemed out of course, to hear his unaffected, simple 
expressions of unwavering confidence in the provi- 
dence of God. "I have been in the habit, Bro. P., 
(he declared) of referring everything to the provi- 
dence of God, and I can and do trust Him and commit 
all into His hands." 

But I must not occupy more time in these remi- 
niscences. All I could safely attempt was to gather up 
in this hurried and somewhat desultory way a few of 



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the more peculiar and prominent traits of character 
and the more noticeable incidents of the Hfe which 
has now come to its close. 

The deep religious character of our departed 
friend was never, so far as I am aware, called in ques- 
tion. The fruits of the spirit of holiness abounded 
from the beginning to the end of the forty-three years 
of his residence among us. As we have seen, he was 
always and everywhere eminently ready for every 
good work. A most diligent student and a lover of 
books, he spared not himself for whatever for good 
was laid upon him, whether in college or town, or par- 
ish or church ; and, beyond and above work abroad, he 
.strove for a fuller and deeper experience of the 
power of Christ in himself, as would be inferred from 
his several works on the religious interior life. For- 
getting the things which were behind, certainly in his 
later years, he seemed to be ever reaching forth unto 
those things which were before; as already intimated, 
he apparently had attained to the full assurance of 
faith in his God and Redeemer and in the methods of 
His providence and grace. This we inferred, not from 
positive declarations, for he spoke rarely of his inner 
life, but from his general bearing and conversation. 
As was to be anticipated by all who knew the man 
and his habits of reflection, and who were at all con- 
versant with his writings, his last years were full of 
peace. I judge that this composure of spirit has cul- 
minated within the last three or four years. 

Within the last six or eight years he apparently 



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began to lose his bodily vigor. During the last winter, 
which he ^spent in New York, he suffered from in- 
creasing infirmitj, though his last literary labor on 
the volume just announced as from the press, gives 
proof that his mental powers could and did work with 
efficiency and success.* 

During the whole past winter he had a persuasion 
that he was near the end of his conversation, and an- 
ticipated the event with hope — at times with joy. He 
often declared: "I shall rejoice when the time comes 
for me to go — the time seems very near;" and he 
made every preparation for the approaching end. 

In his frequent conversations about the heavenly 
state he would say, and how characteristic was it of 
him, " I do not think of heaven as rest or enjoyment. 
My heaven will be to reach and raise the lowest. I 
want to go to the spirits in prison, in the darkness of 
unbelief, and be a ministering spirit to help them." 
Fitting and natural that he, whose life had been so 
much of a ministry, should long for a wider sphere in 
which to exercise this craving of his soul ! 

On Sabbath morning, March 10th, as he was rising 
from bed he was stricken with paralysis of the right 
side, and became at once helpless, speechless, and uncon- 
scious. He remained so until the Friday following, 
when consciousness revived. He was perfectly aware 
of the crisis that had fallen upon him, and, though de- 
nied utterance, his countenance for hours bore an 

*We have the recent announcement that he left a work on the "Abso- 
lute Religion," to be issued from the press of G. P. Putnam's Sons. 



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•expression of peace and triumpli. His wife read to 
Mm a piece from his last publication — Christ in the 
Soul — entitled. The Victory of the Cross. On the 
following Sabbath she read a piece bearing the title, 
"Waiting," from the same volume. In the reading of 
these passages he evidently took comfort and satisfac- 
tion. On the next Thursday night, March 21st, as he 
lay in apparently severe suffering (and he often suf- 
fered greatly) his wife said to him, "The angels are 
coming," repeating the expression. With labored but 
distinct utterance and deepest emotion he exclaimed — 
his first and only articulate utterance during his 
seizure — " My soul is with God." 

Yes, we cherish the confident assurance that the 
mind and soul so abounding in activity many years — 
iBO busy in devices for good, so overflowing with sym- 
pathy, so fruitful of kindness, and often so burdened 
with care and anxiety, is now at rest with God. His 
career on earth "is closed — his account made up. Who 
would not desire, that so much of good may be treas- 
ured for himself in the memories of men, as this so 
brief and hurried and inadequate a sketch records of 
the good we call to mind done by our friend. 

Friends, brethren, while the faithful fail from 
among the children of men, let it be our prayer to 
Him who hath all hearts in his hand, that we may be 
quickened in our duty by the lesson of life before us 
— and that He will raise up many to fill places made 
vacant by death. 





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